Tadeusz Pankiewicz
Tadeusz Pankiewicz (born November 21, 1908 in Sambir , † November 5, 1993 in Cracow ) was a Polish pharmacist , graduate of Jagiellonian University and owner of the pharmacy Pod Orłem (Under the Eagle) in Cracow.
Life
When a “Jewish residential quarter” was set up in Krakow after the German occupation of Poland , his pharmacy was found in the fenced off area of the Krakow ghetto . Since Pankiewicz successfully defended himself against relocating the pharmacy, including with bribes, the pharmacy survived the two and a half years of the ghetto from 1941 to 1943. The pharmacy also survived the subsequent war years and was nationalized in the People's Republic of Poland in 1951 . A small museum was set up in the 1980s.
Pankiewicz was awarded the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations in 1983 for his commitment and help in saving Jews from their murder in the Holocaust . He described his war memories in the book Apteka w getcie krakowskim (first edition 1947).
His grave is in the Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow.
Works
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The pharmacy in the Krakow ghetto . Translated by Manuela Freudenfeld. Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88498-058-0
- New edition The pharmacy in the Krakow ghetto. Transl. Manuela Freudenfeld, ed. Jupp Schluttenhofer, preface Ignatz Bubis , preface Teddy Kollek . Verlag Jupp Schluttenhofer, Friedberg 2017 ISBN 978-3-00-058237-0
literature
- Angelina Awtuszewska-Ettrich: Plaszow - main camp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 263 f.
- Andrea Löw, Markus Roth: Jews in Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in the New York Times (English), accessed May 19, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pankiewicz, Tadeusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pharmacist and Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sambir |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1993 |
| Place of death | Krakow |